<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 26-3. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">Abandoned vessel</span> means a vessel that meets any of the following:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  A vessel that is moored, anchored, or otherwise located for more than 30 consecutive
                  days in any 180 consecutive-day period without permission of the dock owner.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  A vessel that is in danger of sinking, has sunk, is resting on the bottom, or is located
                  such that it is a hazard to navigation or is an immediate danger to other vessels.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Days</span> means calendar days, where the term is used for computation of time.
               
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               <span class="ital">Navigable waters</span> means all waters within Ocracoke Harbor that are subject to the ebb and flow of the
               tide, including rivers, waterways, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats,
               sandflats, and wetlands.
               
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               <span class="ital">Owner</span> means a person, other than a lienholder, having a legal or equitable property interest
               in or title to a vessel, or the person's legal representative. For the purposes of
               this article, when a vessel is determined to have been registered with the North Carolina
               Wildlife Resources Commission, or an agency of another state responsible for registration,
               such registration shall create a rebuttable presumption that the owner is the last
               registered owner of record.
               
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other entity.
               
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               <span class="ital">Vessel</span> means every description of watercraft or structure, other than a seaplane on the
               water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation or habitation on
               the water.
               
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               (
               <a class="ordinance-link" href="" data-product-id="14661" data-ordinance-id="884470">
                  Ord. No. 1234, Â§ 1, 4-2-2018
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               )
               
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